Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Delie of Maurice Sceve
“Richard Sieburth has performed a miracle of literary invention. He has made these poems sing.”—Paul Auster\ A forgotten masterpiece of French poetry, Emblems of Desire is a selection of 449 love poems first published in Lyons in 1544. Full of passionate ironies and charged obscurity, Maurice Scève is considered a sixteenth-century Stéphane Mallarmé. His oblique self-portraiture laid the groundwork for many contemporary poets. Poet Michael Palmer calls Richard Sieburth “one of our finest...
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Radiant songs of love. One of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance. A groundbreaking translation.
